flush-decked
[ fluhsh-dekt ]
adjectiveNautical.
having a weather deck flush with the hull.
Origin of flush-decked
1First recorded in 1620–30
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How to use flush-decked in a sentence
Ships which have their only gun-deck running fore and aft for the same height all along are called flush-decked ships.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. KingstonRacked into a flush-decked recess on one side of the hull was a crane arm with a two-hundred-ton lift capacity.
Code Three | Rick RaphaelShe was flush-decked, and sat high in the water, with a freeboard of nearly five feet.
The Pit Prop Syndicate | Freeman Wills CroftsShe was a flush-decked vessel or corvette—large for that class of craft, with very square yards.
Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships | W.H.G. Kingstonflush-decked vessels are thus termed, in contradistinction to the deep-waisted.
The Sailor's Word-Book | William Henry Smyth
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